“From what I have read you are correct. You can get some of the “virons” into your body and your body fights them and wins. You get too many (I think they call it viral loading) and the body is overwhelmed and the virus wins.”
That’s why having masks is important - even if you only catch 50% of the virons in the mask, you wind up, for example, doubling your allowable exposure time, for a given concentration.
and there aren’t even enough masks for hospital workers, much less the general population.
Imho that has had a critical impact on getting the CDC started down the lying lying lying rabbit hole....
What should have happened is something like this (from Pence?):
“Here is the truth about masks. They work. They are easy to use and people should use them in public settings. The problem is we don’t even have enough for our health care workers.
Here is what we are doing to try to get more masks available, first to our health care workers, and then to the general public.....
In the meantime I ask all Americans to show some patience—we are working the issue and I will continue to update you...”